[Catalyst] Swish-e

[Adam Jacob]

This is perhaps a useless comment, but much of what I used Xapian for  
Solr does as well or better.

Adam

On Mar 23, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Graham Stead wrote:

> Depending on your needs, I'd like to make a plug for using Solr as  
> your
> search engine. Solr presents a nice XML front-end (and adds several  
> fancy
> features) to Lucene. The developer communities for Solr and Lucene  
> are large
> and active. These projects are used as production search engines on  
> many
> sites. A number of large sites have recently replaced their legacy  
> search
> engines with Solr and/or Lucene.
>
> We use Catalyst and an internally developed Net::Solr module for  
> custom
> search applications. If you don't want to roll your own XML  
> support, I can
> make Net::Solr available to interested parties. I would need some help
> getting it ready for community use, but I could also open source it.
>
> If you have serious, production search needs, I suggest at least
> familiarizing yourself with Solr's capabilities (including caching,  
> faceted
> search, function queries, DisMax, etc.). There can be a short  
> learning curve
> to setting it up, especially if you've never run a JVM before. If  
> you want
> something quick and dirty, Kino or other systems may take less time  
> in the
> short term.
>
> Hope this helps,
> -Graham
>
>
>
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